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NATURAL RESOURCES--PANEL APPOINTED FOR PUBLIC REVIEW ----------------------------------------------------------------- A five person panel was established today to conduct the joint public review of the Sable Gas Projects. The panel is chaired by Dr. Robert Fournier of Dalhousie University with the other members being Dr. John Sears, Saint Francis Xavier University (retired), Ms. Jessie Davies, University of New Brunswick, Mr. Kenneth W. Vollman, National Energy Board and Mme. Anita Cote-Verhaaf, National Energy Board. The panel was established pursuant to the agreement for a joint public review of the Sable Gas Projects. This agreement was developed to avoid jurisdictional overlap and duplication and was announced by the signatories on July 17, 1996. The parties to the agreement are the Nova Scotia ministers of Environment and Natural Resources, the National Energy Board and Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, the federal ministers of Environment and Natural Resources. The Sable Gas Projects will have both offshore and onshore components which will require public review. Mobil Oil Canada Properties and its partners have already made an application to the regulators for the development of six natural gas fields near Sable Island, known as the Sable Gas Offshore Project. The proposal also includes the transportation of natural gas via submarine pipeline to a landfall site near Country Harbour, Nova Scotia, a gas plant and a pipeline to transport natural gas liquids to Port Tupper, Nova Scotia. The Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline Project has given notice that it will make an application to the regulators to build a pipeline to transport natural gas from Country Harbour through Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to markets in the Maritimes and New England. Public hearings will be held in both provinces. Times and locations of the hearings will be announced at a later date. A secretariat office has been established in Halifax to provide technical and administrative support to the review panel. -30- NOTE TO EDITORS: A backgrounder is available on panel members by calling 902-424-4492 or 1-800-670-4357. Contact: Edward Sampson 902-496-5112 trp September 10, 1996 - 12:45 p.m.